[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.-Darwin

She definitely had the worst definitions of evolution, though, which was expected.

[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.-Darwin

Anti-evolutionists come in many flavors. Before even engaging one you need to get them to establish where they are coming from, in order to know how to base your arguments.

If you are just defending evolution, then your defenses will be the same regardless of the flavor. But if you are going on the offensive then you have to know the flavor.

But I wasn't on the offensive. We were arguing the role of Intelligent Design and the 'failures' of evolution.

[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.-Darwin

hah. i work with two southern baptists and once upon a time the topic of evolution came up. i said something about it and they glared me.
i said, "what?"
they said "oh, you're one of those people..."
"those people?"
"yeah, the ones who believe in evolution"

You should have then said..."Oh, your THOSE people. People who "...believe in an invisible man in the sky who watches everything we do, every minute of every day, with a special list of ten things he does not want us to do, and if we do ANY of these ten things, he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry for ever and ever 'til the end of time. But, he loves you. He loves you and he needs money!" (The preceeding is from George Carlin)